Improvement in potato-diggers



WILLIAM TRIP, OF MEGHANIGSVILLE NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 110,514, dated December 27, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT m PoTA-ro-oieesns.

The'schedule referred t'o in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM TRIPP, of Mechanicsville, in the county ofSaratoga and State of New York, have invented a new and improvedPotato-Digger; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable` others skilledin the art to make and use the same,

rlhe drawing represents a. side elevation of my improved digger.

`1"irst, l make the land-side A of my plow-shaped digger broad enough toextend from the sole to. the beam, so as to close the space commonlyleft open above the land-side of a plow, whereby the cloggiu which wouldoccur by the tops is avoided. Second, I make a broad and longshovel-shaped extension, B, of the mold-board and share, extending tothe right far enough to run-under the hills, while the land-side runsalong theside of the row, and rising from the edge to the point C, on astraight incline ot' about four inches, more or less, to the foot', andat the rear I make `a deep curved recess, D.l

rlhe beam is attached to the right side of the landside, to cause theplow to run to land sufficient to cause. the partB to run under andraise the whole ofthe hills.

,E is a hook, attached to the plow-beam or to the evener, so as to runto the landward of the plow, vto gather the tops and turn them tothemold-board lside in advance ofthe plow, to prevent -clogging in thethroat. v

This improved digger I use by plowing a shallow furrow under the hills,tur-ning them all on one side, so thatv the earth and potatoeswill risetogether-up the incline, during which time the earth, being composed ot'small particles, will naturally tend to work under the potatoes and castthem to the top, and at the recess in the end of the mold-board theearth will fall sooner than the potatoes, which still adhere to thevines, so that they they will be left exposed on the top, to bepickedjott. v

By arranging the vine-gatherer in connection with the whifle-tre'e, theeffect is entirely dilerent from what it would be it' secured to thebeam of the plow, since, in the latter' case, it takes hold of the vinesso 'near the 'roots as to pull them up', whereas it is only desirable toseparate the vines.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The improved'potato-digger, formed by. the arrangement of thevertically-extended land-side A, and the mold-board or share. providedwith -the broad and nearly flat extension B, and U or Vshaped recess I),all constructed as shown and described.

WILLIAM TRIPP.

Witnesses:

JAMES P. Bonrrs, J ons BnnDLnsoN.

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